This short case study has insights and suggestions for how rural-serving organizations can effectively welcome and truly empower leaders from all backgrounds.

In an Alabama NewsCenter article, Anne Mosle comments on the thought leadership of Melanie Bridgeforth, president and CEO of Women's Foundation of Alabama, who is one of the 2021 Aspen Institute Ascend Fellows.

We can learn much from leaders who draw strength from the values that guide them and are showing us the way to bring forth a better world for children and their families.

What does conventional wisdom mean for how we see ourselves, how we see the world, and for how the world sees us?

As a nation, we have realized that we can no longer tolerate the racial, gender, and social inequities that have shaped our country. Long before today’s unprecedented energy for change, there were leaders who were laying the foundation. Three of those leaders, Ascend Fellows Kwame Anku from the Black Star Fund, Georgia Mjartan from South Carolina First Steps, and Sherece Y. West-Scantlebury from the Winthrop Rockefeller Foundation, were our special guests for this episode of AscendTogether. In conversation with Anne Mosle from Ascend at the Aspen Institute, they share the risks they took, their strategies for pushing change, and their vision for putting equity at the center of investment finance, philanthropy, and state systems for children and families.

It’s going to take more than one type of person to tackle our most vexing social challenges. Hear from Deepa Iyer, designer of the "Social Change Ecosystem Map" on how she designed this tool to help anyone find their role in change-making.

As the pandemic took hold of the world around her, Aviva Nassimi felt a deep urgency to find her role in helping communities who were being disproportionally impacted.

There’s a lot to unpack behind the simple definition of collective leadership. Henry Crown Fellow Cheryl Dorsey breaks down the term and how to build toward it in this conversation with Manoj Kumar, Founder & CEO, Naandi Foundation.

The proliferation of High Resolves is an inspiring example of how one Fellow tapped the AGLN to scale a highly effective solution.